The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-11-12
Anarchism.

A more satisfactory understanding
of the nature Of the crime for which
four anarchists were hung yesterday
and the sentence Of three more CON-
muted from deaf to life Imprisonment,
may be had with knowledge of the
purposes Of their organization their
doctrines which led to and prompted
the murder tor which they were con-
demned. The Internationalist platform
of principles urges that the present
system under which property is own
cd by individuals should be destroy Cd,
aud that all capital, which. has been
produced by labor, should be trans
formed into common property. Its
membership hold that it is only when
capital is made common and indivisi-
BILE that all can be made to partake full
ly and freely of the fruits of common
activity; only by the impossibility of
acquiring individual capital can every
one be compelled to work who claims
the right to live. 1t is admitted that
the property of each individual in the
community could not be taken away
from him and put into common
fund 20 be divided among all the men,
bers of the community without re
sort to revolution and force. The
way to the result sought to be r, ached
leads to the destruction of the exist
ing system Of social order and of all
the laws and institutions upon which
the system is based. The association
charges that the government, the
law, the schools, the churches, the
press, are in the pay and under the
sway of the property-owning and
capalistic classes, and that the lab r.
ing classes must achieve their deliv-
erance through their own strength.
The association was divided into
groups, of which there we're eighty ~
the United States in 1885, located prin.
cipally in the cities of industry. For
some time prior TO the Haymarket
riot there were a number Of these
groups in Chicago. Seven different
groups were spoken Of by witnesses
during the anarchists trial. Schwab,
Neebe and Lingg belonged to the
North Side Group, Engel and Fische
TO the Northwest Side Group, ard
SPIES, Parsons and Ficlden to the
A merican Group. The members OF
these groups were known by numbers
and not by names. Certain numbers
of these groups were armed with
rifles and drilled regularly once week
at their respective places of meeting,
taking their rifles home with them
after the drill. These armed members
were known and designated as the
EARNED sections" of the groups.
There was also certain armed social
tic organization, called the Lehr und
Weir Verein, whose members also be-
longed to the groups, but were of
higher rank. having attained higher
grade in the perfection of their drill
than the ordinary armed sections, o.
international Rifles. In the spring oil
1885 there were in Chicago 5000 OF
these armed socialists, of whom Par.
SONS then said that they were armed
with rifles and revolvers, and would
have dynamite and bombs when they
got ready to use them.
As the groups were known by num-
bers, no record was kept of their
names, and system was adopted by
which the members would be as little
known to each other as possible The
Arbeiter Zeitung, owned by cor
poration in which Spies, Schwab,
Fischer and Neebe were stockholders
was conducted as an organ in the in
tcrest of the German-speaking
groups, and the Alarm, edited first by
Parsons and then by Fielder, was TIE
organ in the interest of the English
speaking groups. Besides the regular
weeklp meetings of the groups, there
was occasionally a meeting OF all the
armed sections of the different groups.
These meetings were called by a sig
nal giyen nv the A rbeiter Zeitunp